Forum: Illinois should get priorities straight

Thursday

Jul 17, 2014 at 8:30 PMJul 17, 2014 at 8:30 PM

In a recent Journal Star there were two articles, one above the other, concerning state funding priorities.

The top one reported that one of four staff members at the Danville National Cemetery had retired and another had resigned. Neither position will be filled, leaving a limit of one veteran per day who can be buried or cremated there because of staff reductions.

Below that article was a report that the Illinois Public Museum Capital Grant Program is granting the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington $700,000 for a new monkey exhibit, parking and other work.

We’re all overjoyed that the De Brazza’s monkeys, native to the forest and wetlands of central Africa, will have a new home while the burial of veterans will have to wait for a “slow” day to be properly buried!